Operabase435.000 performances on file since 1996;Seasons of 900+ opera companies, around 25,000 performances each year

The five seasons 2007/8 to 2011/12Works from 1108 different composers were played, of whom more than half (580) are livingA total of 2350 different works were given, including 300 world premieres over the 5 seasons

Total number of performances by country, for the 2011/12 season.In brackets, the national populations in millions. NB: figures for countries outside western Europe and North America (particularly Russia) will be too low, as it was difficult to get accurate and complete information for them [See a later year].As Operabase collected about 21,000 performances in this season, Germany is mounting about 30% of all opera performances globally.

1

de

Vokietija

7307

(81.758m)

2

us

JAV

1780

(308.746m)

3

at

Austrija

1291

(8.356m)

4

fr

Prancūzija

1269

(65.822m)

5

it

Italija

1251

(60.419m)

6

uk

Jungtinė Karalystė

1047

(62.042m)

7

ch

Šveicarija

701

(7.786m)

8

se

Švedija

599

(9.354m)

9

ru

Rusija

585

(141.927m)

10

cz

Čekija

523

(10.675m)

11

es

Ispanija

523

(46.030m)

12

pl

Lenkija

483

(38.192m)

13

hu

Vengrija

377

(9.942m)

14

au

Australija

353

(22.560m)

15

be

Belgija

262

(10.828m)

16

nl

Nyderlandai

257

(16.648m)

17

ca

Kanada

236

(34.352m)

18

no

Norvegija

211

(4.938m)

19

sk

Slovakija

179

(5.430m)

20

ro

Rumunija

174

(21.959m)

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The number of performances per million citizens.In brackets, the total number of performances and the population in millions.

1

at

Austrija

154.5

(1291 /

8.356m)

2

ee

Estija

100.7

(135 /

1.340m)

3

ch

Šveicarija

90.0

(701 /

7.786m)

4

de

Vokietija

89.4

(7307 /

81.758m)

5

se

Švedija

64.0

(599 /

9.354m)

6

cz

Čekija

49.0

(523 /

10.675m)

7

no

Norvegija

42.7

(211 /

4.938m)

8

hu

Vengrija

37.9

(377 /

9.942m)

9

sk

Slovakija

33.0

(179 /

5.430m)

10

fi

Suomija

30.5

(164 /

5.375m)

11

lu

Liuksemburgas

29.9

(15 /

0.502m)

12

lv

Latvija

28.9

(64 /

2.218m)

13

si

Slovėnija

28.3

(58 /

2.049m)

14

dk

Danija

27.9

(155 /

5.558m)

15

be

Belgija

24.2

(262 /

10.828m)

16

hr

Kroatija

23.2

(104 /

4.486m)

17

bg

Bulgarija

21.5

(163 /

7.577m)

18

it

Italija

20.7

(1251 /

60.419m)

19

fr

Prancūzija

19.3

(1269 /

65.822m)

20

lt

Lietuva

18.5

(60 /

3.244m)

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The number of performances in each city, in the 2011/12 season.The figure given in brackets is the urban population in millions.
Measured by the number of opera performances in the 2011/12 season, the most operatic cities were Berlin (with 594 performances), Wien, London, Paris, and München (in position 5), followed by Prague, New York, and Dresden.

Since our first set of statistics, Berlin has overtaken Wien to be the city with most opera performances.

Composers ranked by the number of performances of their operas over the five seasons 2007/08 to 2011/12Compared with our statistics from 2009/10, the order of the composers remains much the same, but there have been big increases in the numbers of performances of works by the composers at the top of the table. This is possibly due to some companies choosing safer programming due to the global financial situation. There were also big increases for composers with approaching centenaries: Verdi 3020 productions (up from 2259 in 2009/10), Wagner (1292 up from 920).Can't read stats0712_compperf.csv ... aborting